Indictment details alleged impersonations of NSA agent and Supreme Court ‘Special Master’
A federal grand jury in the Northern District of Indiana returned a five-count indictment Friday against Joshua M. Culver, charging him with forging the signature of Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts and falsely impersonating a federal agent on multiple occasions between September 2025 and January 2026, according to United Press International.
The indictment names four counts of falsely impersonating an officer of the United States and one count of forging the signature of a judge and court seal, UPI reported. The federal grand jury returned the indictment in the Northern District of Indiana.
Culver was arrested in Colorado, and a public defender has been assigned to him there, according to UPI. UPI did not specify when the arrest took place.
The impersonation counts, as described by UPI’s account of the indictment, include an allegation that Culver identified himself as an agent of the National Security Agency on at least two occasions in September 2025. On one of those occasions, the indictment alleges, he appeared at the Tippecanoe County Sheriff’s Office in Indiana seeking information about the location of a family member.
The indictment further alleges that Culver placed phone calls to an individual at their place of employment, threatening them and accusing them of breaking the law, UPI reported. The report does not specify when those calls occurred.
In a separate episode in January 2026, Culver allegedly told a Lake County, Indiana judge that he was a “Special Master enforcing orders of the United States Supreme Court” and asked the judge to dismiss criminal cases and judgments pending against him, according to UPI.
The forgery count centers on an order that Culver is accused of producing bearing what UPI describes as Roberts’ forged signature along with a counterfeit court seal. The order, dated in September according to the news agency, allegedly directed a Grant County, Indiana court to drop theft charges pending against Culver.
UPI’s report did not specify the year of the September in which the order was allegedly issued, though the indictment covers events from September 2025 through January 2026.